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Saturday, 18 June 2011

Beautiful Brooch

There's a gorgeous shop on Ely railway station called 'Rosie & Dolly'. Do look in there if ever you get the chance. It's an eclectic mix of jewellery, clothes, bags, hats, scarves, china, cards ... Some are vintage, clothes are made up in fun prints. It's just crammed full. As I'm on holiday this week, I treated myself to this brooch. At £6, I thought that was reasonable and the reverse reveals it was made in Vienna (& not Hong Kong). It's resting on a card by Pip Design, a company I've never heard of before - they make china as well as cards.
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Raised in Manchester, now living in Norfolk and working in Cambridge, I studied printed textile design in Manchester at the Polytechnic in the 80's. I continued with product design, innovation and cultural studies, graduating with a BSc (Hons) with the Open University. Until recently, I worked in a decorative art museum in Cambridge for many years, as a Sales Manager in the Photographic Library, which also influenced my art work. See my online exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum link below. I've since moved on to concentrate on Copyright issues but have a continuing love for fabric and the history behind it and am aiming to use it in my creations. I also love to knit and have just completed (2015) a Level 3 City and Guilds qualification in Creative Studies focusing on handknitting. I like to collect printed ephemera, specifically china from the 20's and 30's and I have a love of nature and conservation, particularly plants and gardens, which I also use as inspiration for my drawings, paintings and photographs.